Syconycteris australis (Peters, 1867). Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1867:13. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Queensland, Rockhampton. DISTRIBUTION: E Queensland and New South Wales (Australia); New Guinea; D'Entrecasteaux Isis, Trobriand Isis, Louisiade Arch., and Bismarck Arch. (Papua New Guinea); Molucca Isis; various adjacent small islands. SYNONYMS: crassa, finschi, keyensis, major, naias, papuana. COMMENTS: Includes naias and crassa; see Lidicker and Ziegler (1968:34) and Koopman (1982:8-10).Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 155, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735306